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Will MSM Give Hillary a Free Pass?

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My brother is becoming increasingly convinced that Hillary will win next fall because the media will give her a free pass.

It certainly seems like it.

So eager are they for another Clinton in the White House — and to be able to cover the “historic moment” of the election of the first woman president.

And yesterday, while doing cardio at the gym, I was watching MSNBC and watched Chris Matthew toss softballs at Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. I haven’t done a scientific survey on this, but it seems to me we see her spokespeople on the talking heads shows more often than we see those of other candidates. (Indeed, I can’t recall seeing her doing any one-on-one interviews.)

I’m sure she’ll do her share of interviews as the actual primaries and caucuses approach, but like her husband in the ’90’s, she’ll be careful to avoid those interviewers who might ask her tough questions.* Her Republican opponents won’t have such luxury because even reporters at FoxNews have been known to ask tough questions of Republicans.

This may well help her in the short term, but in the long term, it could redound to her disadvantage, making her look like a pre-programmed automaton repeating campaign points and not vigorously defending her record. Or maybe I’m just an optimist.

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*For example, a good reporter would ask her point-blank what she thinks about Sandy Berger, her husband’s National Security Advisor and his “carelessness” with sensitive documents.

Comments

  2. making her look like a pre-programmed automaton repeating campaign points and not vigorously defending her record.

    Aren’t all liberals? Besides, you gotta have a record to defend in the first place. Hil-dog ain’t got one.

  4. Im suprised there isnt more support for Bill Richardson who’s resume is extremely impressive. And what about Joe Biden who has a reasonable plan for securing Iraq and who is one of the only Democrats saying he refuses to pull out of Iraq. I would vote for either one of these guys. But Hillary Clinton? Are they kidding me over qualified candidates? Next to these guys she looks like a joke. Besides Obama will probably get the liberal vote because he voted against the war.

  5. A Shill for Bill

    Yes, as Maureen Dowd has stated, HRC’s only real qualifications for public office were her marital ties. Hopefully the American People will see she is a shill for Bill.

  8. Actually, I was kinda hoping the MSM would take the tack of if Hillary gets elected President, that would mean since 1989 there has been either a Bush or a Clinton in the White House & it’s time to break the iron grip of these dynasties. Too much to hope for I guess.

  11. There is no question that MSM will do more than just give her a free pass. But will it work? There is a sense that she is entitled to this. Sort of like, it was Bob Doles time, so he ran, but there was always the sense that he deserved the presidency – he didn’t have to earn it.

    So yes, MSM will be promoting her, Obama came out as the fresh new face, but he is already in his own words: ‘tired’.
    I hear from older Democrats that they like Edwards, I’m surpirsed that Richardson hasn’t gotten more press.

    We probably will face Shillary in Nov. 08, I am more concerned about who the Republican candidate will be, unfortunately, at the moment, I am underwhelmed by all of them.

  12. Bill Richardson is unknown. In that he resembles Bill Clinton.

    Down here in New Mexico he’s seen as a carpet bagger, moving to the state because the governorship was possible as a deliberate step toward the presidency. He’s a spender, big time, and has us paying for space-port development, which no one *here* seems to take the least bit seriously (as in it ever happening… that “future spaceport” sign has been by the highway forever. But it’s going to play well in the rest of the country.

    And maybe he wouldn’t be so bad but…

    … I describe New Mexico politics as the next best thing to third-world that I’ve seen in the US. The local politics are… well, we *don’t* want them on a national level.

    And there’s the fact that the lady running his opponent’s campain last time around was waylaid on her way home from an event… she had to stop because her tires were slashed… and then she got beaten near to death with a tire iron.

  15. Maybe I’m forever the naive optimist, but I don’t expect the MSM to parade that battleaxe to the Presidency on a sedan chair the way they did in her Senate campaign. Sure, the press (particularly the agenda-of-rage feminist contingent) will cut her slack whenever they can–perhaps just by ignoring any campaign stumbles by focusing on the “HISTORIC” status of her nomination—but I think there are already signals that a “free pass” for Hilary is not necessarily forthcoming.

    The most disturbing thing about Hilary’s run for the Senate was that it exposed the elitist bubble she had created around herself after 30 years of marriage to a perpetual candidate while never running for public office herself. More disturbing was the media’s failure to call her on the carpet for her indignant refusal to discuss any issues in the campaign outside the parameters of the formal debates, or answer any questions that had not first been pre-approved, focus-grouped and staff-filtered to death. I found Lazio so appealing because he was practically walking around on the street with a karaoke microphone, eager to discuss his beliefs with his would-be constituents. But the MSM permitted Queen Hilary to remain ensconced in her ivory tower for the duration of the campaign, unruffled by the unwashed masses who would dare make eye contact, let alone question her position on the establishment of a Palestinian state. (It apparently worked–she won by a landslide.)

    A campaign for the nomination (and the Presidency) is an entirely different animal. For the first time, she is going to find herself on the “trail” in front of a battery of cameras 5-6 times per day in three different states, with throngs of reporters (and those trouble-making philistines, REGULAR AMERICANS) at each stop demanding on-the-fly answers. She can’t hide from that any more than she could hide from the responsibilities of the Presidency itself (if she happens to pull it off). She may have to change accents 2-3 times in one day! I just want to see any speeches she gives in Harlem in front of Bill’s office building–I’m sure she’ll pull out the full-on gangsta’-bitch.

    The media always goes easier on the Democrat, we know this. But I believe her biggest liability is the fact that the increased exposure will only confirm what most people (Libs, Conservs and even journalists) have already figured out: she’s not Bill and she never will be. This was clear a few months ago in Alabama with the pathetic speech she gave with that manufactured “southern” (more like Southern Boston) drawl that would have gotten her bitch-slapped by Vivien Leigh. It was so gross and condescending that she may as well have worn an electric sandwich board saying, “I’m not Bill! I’m not ‘feeling y’all’s pain’ just yet, but I’m sure gonna try!” No matter how certain she may have been all along that she had Bill’s “it” factor and that “it” would be there for her when she ran for public office, it just isn’t–no matter how desperately the media hoped it would be so they could celebrate it.

    Despite being perhaps even more profoundly corrupt than her husband and living with him for 30 years (on a few nights even under the same roof), Hilary is incapable of conveying Bill’s warm, charismatic, morally-certain eloquence that the press finds so enthralling and Conservatives correctly see as sickening, repellent, and lacking even a scintilla of authenticity.

    Accordingly, her only choice is to run by dropping the transparent theatrics and communicating her logic-free, morally-bankrupt agenda as (gasp!) herself, a one-term Senator running for the highest office in the land. And the press and Hollywood have already made it clear that she’s not going to get it handed to her on a platter. If Hilary was a down-to-the-DNA carbon copy of Bill with a command of all of the Maestro’s dazzling political fire and music (albeit, with ovaries), the media would have crushed Obama by now. I’m praying the media is thinking, “if we’re not getting another Bill, why another Clinton? Let’s see what this Obama guy is selling.”

    Again, the media does whatever it wants and is certainly still capable of getting behind her 100% (hoping to deliver her back to the White House like Cleopatra entering Rome), but the election is still far enough away for me to enjoy my naive optimism for a bit longer and hope that Hilary gets hit (and HARD) with the realization that dropping “Rodham” from her name isn’t going to get her the “coronation” she’s thinks she’s entitled to from the media. For now, don’t rain on my parade–nothing has given me more giggles in the past few months than watching that mortified shrew actually having to fight her own battles against, for example, a committed lefty gay billionaire who once dated Cher! (I’m sure she thought, “can this possibly be happening? Am I being Punk’d?”)

  16. #3: NDT has to stretch to find a Dem gaffe but the GOP herd produces far more substantive ones on a regular basis. Rudy apparently considers anyone who isn’t a millionaire mere riffraff not worth the time of day. But fear not, St. John rushes in to save the day. Speaking of Rudy, he’s flip-flopped again on civil unions. Goodness, it’s no longer clear what he believes! Then there’s Mitt who’s campaign literature apparently iincludes a flyer, the message of which seems to be “he sure is purty.”

  19. Who exactly comprises this awful MSM you all mention constantly? Please list them or at least list the ones you don’t consider MSM who give people fair coverage – I’d really like to know…

    [GP Ed. Note – Let me start the list… NY Times, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Adam Nagourney, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermann, Anderson Cooper, Jack McCafferty, Wolf Blitzer, David Gregory, Dana Milbank….. sorry Kev, but my fingers are getting worn out…]

  21. #19. Kevin: don’t you know that conservatives are always victimized by the MSM? It is a constant refrain of theirs and they love the victim card. Boo-hoo, the MSM won’t broadcast what I think for me…boo-hoo.

  23. Mitt Romney is a joke, most of these candidates dont look like their qualified enough to be a manager at McDonalds let alone President. I cant believe Giuliani is the front runner. His popularity suprises me because on social issues I would vote for him. That guy is just a Democrat who likes guns. I believe it is only a matter of time before McCain and Thompson move up in the polls since they actually have the qualifications to be President.